Looks pretty except for garage door and bay window. Paint them your siding color and eliminate black trim on bay detail and the red basketball hoop and it will look wonderful.

Like this and add some seasonal color. If you can’t remove basketball hoop paint it black.

Wow. Thank you to everyone for their thoughtful and helpful suggestions (and graphics!). You’ve given us lots to consider.

I actually like all the black. I think if you could paint the bay and that fascia board a nice bright white and do the driveway like mentioned about if would look nice and fresh. Also some flowers would be nice

Important additional item Beverly mentioned is to put a new coat of seal product on the driveway. It will extend the life of that a lot. We had that in our home in Oakmont, PA and hubby did it every fall (before the leaves started dropping) and it was still fine when we sold the house 10 years later.

I like the black, too. Can you paint just the bottom of the bay window black to ground it? Get a glossier black for the shutters if the flat bothers you.

The "missing" element that will change the look of the home is landscaping - especially in front of the bay and along the walkway - curved edges, with varying textures, colors, and heights.

I see Flo Mangan made a mock up of the bay window painted to match the siding. It improves the look a whole lot.

I don't think there's too much black. gloss always appears darker than matte, and personally I never liked gloss black on a home exterior. find out what the shutters are -- they seem like satin? you could add a satin clear coat to the door and garage to match the finish, and it should tone down the look overall. you'd need to figure out exactly the right product though, so it doesn't peel. (as in water based vs poly.)

I also like Beverly's mockup with the white garage door, it would be the easiest solution too.

Normally, I would say remove the shutters because they do not fit the the double windows correctly...and they do not. However, the stucco section of the house is pretty blah, so my suggestion is to paint the shutters the color the stucco, as well as the trim. Front door....you don't say what color you painted the stucco, but choose a darker color on the strip.

I like the white bay window but the black trim on it has to go.

Go with Flo…..

Yes! PLEASE go with Flo!

Thanks for the positive comment all. What can I do to help further?

I had to go back and look at Flo’s suggestion. I do like it. Flo: did you see my latest post? We tried to colour match the upper stucco to paint the garage but it didn’t work.

It’s looking like we’ll have to paint the stucco now — something we really didn’t want to do.

Do you think if we painted the bay window as you suggested, in the same colour as the garage, we could get away with leaving the stucco?

Here’s what the house currently looks like. And yes, we’ll adding much more shrubbery in the spring.

From your photos, your garage door appears as though it is in the green Hue family and your stucco appears in Yellow red hue family. How did you get paint color for garage door? Since color assessments on line are inaccurate at best, can you post name and brand of stucco color and color used for garage door. That will give me solid info to check my sources that will be much more accurate for you.

Hi Flo — I think the sun is making the stucco appear yellow. Here are a few more pics. The garage is painted in Newport Grey. I don’t know what the stucco is.

In real life, do you see some lavender in the stucco? That would indicate the base DNA of that color has red in it. I will check the DNA of Newport Grey. Bbl

What brand paint is the Newport Grey?

Benjamin Moore

Is there a number? I am not finding that color.

So sorry, Flo. It’s Rockport Grey.

Or is it a “custom match”?

We went with pure Rockport Grey.

Ok. Let me look up that color DNA.

They struggled to colour match because the piece of stucco was so detailed and dynamic — not flat.

Yea, with irregular surface you have to take numerous readings and average to attempt to get close. Aging also impacts match abilities. Bbl

I really like the new color of the garage door, although I thought the black was just fine.

Thanks. I like it a lot too. Just need to figure out what to do with the top that doesn’t match.

Ok. Found that color. It has an LRV of 36 that makes it low on light reflective qualities. It has a high level of chroma so that’s what gives it “graying” quality. It sits at 90.6 degrees on the Color Strategist Color Wheel. As I examine these colors and see what different light conditions do to the perception of the colors, these gray/yellow hue tones are going to be very difficult to get perfect. Especially, since you don’t really want to paint the stucco. I want to hunt around a bit and see if I can find a better color for the garage door. That’s the easiest to change.

Thank you so much, Flo. You’re a serious pro! Tell me — do you think the house would look good if we did paint the stucco Rockport Grey?

Sorry but the Rockport Grey is wrong tone for your stone especially. I am looking for an alternative for you.

Well, If you can find a match for the stucco, that would be incredible.

I have tried a number of BM choices but i am not 100% happy with any BM colors. Did you look at BM Balboa Mist? It is lighter but might be worth getting a sample. It has similar chroma and colorfulness. I would suggest you get a color analyst locally. With a instrument a reading can be taken in several places and then averaged to get a color that works. I can try, but we can’t see true colors on line. See if Balboa Mist might work.

Thank you so much, Flo. I truly appreciate you doing this for me. I will look into getting a sample of Balboa Mist. How does one go about finding a color analyst?

Send an email to Lori Sawaya thru Facebook or Land of Color. I am certified Color Analyst from Lori’s program and she has list of people all over and hoped can help you find someone nearby.

Fantastic. I'll do that for sure. Thank you, Flo.

So I just checked Lori's Facebook page but she doesn't accept messages from those she's not connected to. As well, her email isn't provided on her About page. Any suggestions on how to reach her? My search for Land of Color on Facebook just produced a page for a rock band. :-)

If you can send me an email at manganflo@gmail.com I will hook you up.

I will reach out to Lori separately and see if she can drop in here and help. 🧑🏻‍🎨

Done. Hope you hear from her soon. 🙂

Just sent you an email, Flo.

Got it and forwarded to Lori. Did you hear from the Rock Band?? Haha😂😂😂

Here's a link to a page on The Land of Color. I also once found that rock band on a search.

https://thelandofcolor.com/lrv-light-reflectance-value-of-paint-colors/

And a link to their Balboa Mist page

https://thelandofcolor.com/balboa-mist-oc-27-benjamin-moore/

Sorry I forgot to post that in my efforts to get Lori’s thoughts. Thanks barncatz.

May be odd man out but I like the version of Rockport she got and that's on the garage door with the stone. Don't love the current color of the stucco.

Of course color online is never accurate but IME with stone on exteriors...

If you can do colors that skew greenish it's always a good thing vs. a near neutral from the YR hue family. Or as some people might call it, taupe. IMO.

And OP said she likes Rockport with the stone. So I vote more Rockport.

Thank you, Lori! Very helpful take on how to tackle this dilemma. I will report back when we do our fix!

Yea. I don’t like the stucco color for sure. So sounds like a plan. Thanks Lori for your expert eye and knowledge!

Love it when a team comes together.